item: #1 of 11
          id: 10583
      author: Grattan, Thomas Colley
       title: Holland: The History of the Netherlands
        date: None
       words: 131551
      flesch: 55
     summary: Whoever would really enjoy the spirit of historical details should never omit an opportunity of seeing places rendered memorable by associations connected with the deeds, and especially with the death, of great men; the spot, for instance, where William was assassinated at Delft; the old staircase he was just on the point of ascending; the narrow pass between that and the dining-hall whence he came out, of scarcely sufficient extent for the murderer to held forth his arm and his pistol, two and a half feet long. They were not now compelled to look abroad and solicit other states to become their masters.
    keywords: alva; antwerp; army; authority; battle; belgium; brabant; brother; brussels; cause; character; charles; chief; command; conduct; council; countries; country; counts; day; death; duke; dutch; efforts; emperor; enemy; england; english; europe; flanders; following; force; france; french; friesland; general; germany; ghent; good; government; governor; head; henry; holland; influence; john; king; left; liberty; louis; means; measures; men; national; netherlands; new; object; orange; parma; peace; people; period; philip; power; prince; prince maurice; provinces; republic; son; spain; spanish; states; success; time; title; towns; treaty; troops; united; war; william; year
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 11898
      author: None
       title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2
        date: None
       words: 52291
      flesch: 68
     summary: Holland is in great part lower than the level of the sea; consequently, everywhere that the coast is not defended by sand-banks, it has to be protected by dikes. Even from this distance, one can see the moving of great trees, the masses of yellow flower-tips that dye the sides of the stony hill, and the strips of green grass here and there.
    keywords: air; art; battle; black; blois; bridge; bruges; canals; century; church; château; cities; city; country; day; dutch; end; english; europe; feet; fine; footnote; france; francis; french; half; hand; history; holland; houses; king; left; life; loire; man; men; middle; mont; new; night; north; people; place; river; road; rock; sea; set; stone; streets; time; towers; town; trees; van; walls; water; waterloo; way; wellington; white; william; work; world; years
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 14951
      author: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
       title: A Wanderer in Holland
        date: None
       words: 92832
      flesch: 71
     summary: Among other Dutch pictures in the Mauritshuis which I should like to mention for their particular charm are Gerard Dou's Young Housekeeper, to which we come in the chapter on Leyden's painters; Ostade's Proposal, one of the pleasantest pictures which he ever signed; Ruisdael's View of Haarlem and Terburg's portraits. Like most other Dutch towns Middelburg had its period of siege.
    keywords: alkmaar; amsterdam; art; bells; black; book; canal; century; chapter; children; church; city; collection; country; day; days; death; delft; dort; dutch; end; england; english; evening; example; father; fine; gallery; girl; god; good; haarlem; hague; half; hals; hand; head; holland; hoorn; house; interest; jan; king; lady; leeuwarden; left; leyden; life; little; long; man; market; master; men; middelburg; mother; museum; new; night; north; opposite; page; painter; people; peter; picture; place; prince; red; rembrandt; river; room; rotterdam; ryks; sea; siege; son; spanish; stadhuis; steen; story; streets; things; time; tower; town; trees; van; vermeer; walls; water; way; white; wife; william; women; work; world; years; young
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 14971
      author: Edmundson, George
       title: History of Holland
        date: None
       words: 187975
      flesch: 60
     summary: St Martin, 328 St Omer, 40 St Quentin, battle at (1557), 28 St Trond, 39 St Venant, 294 St Vincent, 171 _Stad en Landen_, 93, 111 Stadholders, powers and functions of, 4f., 115 f. Stair, Lord, 307 _Standdard, De_, 420 Stanley, Sir William, 87 f. Staten river, 164 States-Flanders, 103 States-General, constitution of, 3 f., 111 f., 345 Steen, Jan, 200 Steenbergen, 82 Steenwijk, 93, 258 Steinkirk, 279 Stevin, Simon, 198 Steyn, council-pensionary, 316, 318 f. Stock-dealing, 322 Stockholm, 121, 201, 230 Stoke, Melis, 190 Story, Rear-Admiral, 352 Strafford, Earl of, 152 Strafford, Lord, 295 Strasburg, 267, 280 Strickland, Walter, 203 f., 212 f. Strickland, William, 154 Stuyvesant, Peter, 177 Suffren, French admiral, 328 Sugar plantations, 276, 340 Sumatra, 163 Surat, 275 Surinam, 243, 248, 261, 276, 327, 347, 416, 418; Society of, 345 _Survivance Acte de_ (1631), 145, 202 Swammerdam, Jan, 199 Sweden and Holland, relations of, 178-182 Swedo-Dutch Company, 179 Swiss Cantons, the, 8 _ They are given in the order of their dates: Frans Hals (1584-1666), Gerard Honthorst (1592-1662), Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), Jan Wyvants (1600-87), Albert Cuyp (1606-72), Jan Lievens (1607-63), Rembrandt van Rhyn (1608-69), Gerard Terburg (1608-81), Adrian Brouwer (1608-41), Ferdinand Bol (1609-81), Salomon Koning (1609-74), Andreas Both (1609-60), Jan Both (1610-62), Adrian van Ostade (1610-85), Bartolomaus van der Helst (1613-70), Gerard Douw (1613-80), Gabriel Metzu (1615-58), Govaert Flinck (1615-60), Isaac van Ostade (1617-71), Aart van der Neer (1619-83), Pieter de Koningh (1619-89), Philip Wouvermans (1620-68), Pieter van der Hoogh (?), Nicolas Berchem (1624-83), Paul Potter (1625-54), Jacob Ruysdael (1625-81), Meindert Hobbema (?), Jan Steen (1626-79), Samuel van Hoogstraeten (1627-78), Ludolf Backhuizen (1631-1709), Jan van der Meer of Delft (1632-?), Nicholas Maes (1632-93), William van der Velde (1633-1707), Frans van Mieris (1635-81), Caspar Netscher (1639-84), Adrian van der Velde (1639-72).
    keywords: action; admiral; affairs; alliance; amsterdam; antwerp; april; army; august; authority; belgian; belgium; body; brussels; charles; chief; command; company; council; country; death; duke; dutch; east; effect; efforts; emperor; end; enemy; england; english; flanders; fleet; following; force; france; frederick; french; friesland; general; good; government; governor; hague; hands; head; henry; holland; house; iii; influence; january; john; july; june; king; law; left; life; london; lord; louis; luxemburg; majority; march; margaret; maurice; members; military; nassau; national; negotiations; netherlands; new; north; november; number; october; office; oldenbarneveldt; opposition; orange; order; paris; party; peace; pensionary; people; philip; policy; possession; power; prince; provinces; republic; right; royal; sea; september; set; ships; son; sovereign; spain; spanish; stadholder; states; support; terms; time; town; trade; treaty; troops; union; united; utrecht; van; van de; vessels; vols; war; way; william; witt; years; zeeland
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 27799
      author: De Amicis, Edmondo
       title: Holland, v. 1 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 64160
      flesch: 66
     summary: I will only mention that in Rotterdam, as in other Dutch cities, no one, in speaking of their country's affairs, showed the least national vanity. He became a painter by chance, like many other Dutch artists.
    keywords: air; amsterdam; appearance; art; artists; black; canals; century; children; city; country; day; delft; door; dutch; dykes; faces; family; french; good; ground; hague; head; holland; houses; italian; left; life; light; look; man; men; meuse; moment; nature; new; number; painter; painting; people; pictures; prince; room; rotterdam; school; sea; sky; streets; time; town; trees; van; water; white; william; windows; women; work; world; years; zealand
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 36110
      author: Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus)
       title: Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera
        date: None
       words: 46761
      flesch: 67
     summary: Many beautiful old shade trees surround the castle, and the restful silence inspires one with the desire to be alone and yield himself up to the spirit of the place, hallowed by such wealth of associations and the presence of immortal art. Amsterdam, the commercial capital of Holland, is but a short ride from Rotterdam, and like all the other dam cities of this region, possesses many attractions of its own, besides being the centre or hub from which radiate trips to many picturesque towns and other points of interest.
    keywords: appearance; artist; beauty; camera; castle; cathedral; children; church; city; close; country; day; english; faces; family; feet; gardens; gay; german; good; hand; holland; hotel; houses; illustration; life; looking; man; marken; men; new; night; page; people; picturesque; place; quaint; rhine; river; room; scenes; stands; street; suit; time; town; view; walk; water; way; windows; women; world; young
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 38595
      author: Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
       title: The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
        date: None
       words: 50507
      flesch: 68
     summary: Young boys and old men were mustered into the army. One hundred years ago, at the moment we are writing this chapter, on the 18th of November, 1813, old man Bluecher, cursing and swearing at the Corsican blackguard, whirled his cavalry against the left flank of the French army, smashed it to pieces, and changed Napoleon's victory of Leipzig into a defeat.
    keywords: amsterdam; army; assembly; batavian; batavian republic; british; citizen; constitution; council; country; days; dutch; estates; executive; fleet; french; general; good; government; hague; half; holland; illustration; king; legislative; man; members; moment; napoleon; national; new; number; paris; people; place; prince; provisional; republic; revolution; revolutionary; soldiers; stadholder; state; time; town; van; way; william; work; years
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 42203
      author: McManus, Blanche
       title: Our Little Dutch Cousin
        date: None
       words: 20308
      flesch: 80
     summary: Little Dutch children are usually very quiet, when compared to the children of most other countries, though they are full of fun, in a quiet sort of a way, when they want to be. There is nothing strange in hearing little Dutch children speak English, French, or German, for they are taught all three languages in their schools; and even very little children can say some words of English or German.
    keywords: 12mo; beautiful; children; city; cloth; country; cousin=; day; dutch; father; good; holland; house; joost; mevrouw; mother; mynheer; new; people; pieter; story; theodore; time; water; way; white; wilhelmina
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        item: #9 of 11
          id: 48697
      author: Edmundson, George
       title: Anglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century being the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford in 1910
        date: None
       words: 51434
      flesch: 63
     summary: These instructions were in fact a direct reply and challenge to the proclamation of King Charles. This daring infringement of English neutrality could not but give deep offence to King Charles, and be hurtful to the feelings of the English people.
    keywords: adventurers; alliance; ambassador; carleton; charles; company; council; dutch; east; embassy; england; english; envoys; fisheries; fishery; fishing; fleet; france; french; general; good; great; hague; holland; instructions; james; king; king james; london; majesty; matter; negotiations; netherlands; parliament; policy; prince; provinces; question; rights; seas; ships; sir; spain; spanish; states; time; trade; treaty; united; van; war; years
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        item: #10 of 11
          id: 8412
      author: None
       title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1
        date: None
       words: 53343
      flesch: 69
     summary: From the time of St. Louis onward, the French kings began to live more and more in the northern suburb, the town of the merchants, which now assumed the name of La Ville, in contradistinction to the Cité and the Université. In the north aisle notice St. Louis with the Crown of Thorns.
    keywords: arch; arches; avignon; building; cathedral; century; chapel; choir; church; city; cloud; court; dame; day; days; des; door; end; feet; footnote; france; french; good; gothic; grand; history; house; illustration; king; left; like; look; louis; louvre; marie; men; modern; napoleon; nave; paris; people; place; queen; remains; renaissance; right; roman; rose; round; royal; saint; stone; tho; time; tower; town; versailles; walls; way; white; windows; work; xiv; years
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 8823
      author: Hough, P. M.
       title: Dutch Life in Town and Country
        date: None
       words: 69104
      flesch: 60
     summary: Dutch men and women fought and died at the dykes, and suffered awful agonies on the rack and at the stake. Dutch men and women seem to have all sizes equally distributed amongst them; it cannot be said that they are a short people, like the French and the Belgians, nor can the indication of middle size be so rightly applied to them as to their German neighbours, whereas the taller Anglo-Saxons can frequently find their match in the Netherlands.
    keywords: amsterdam; army; boys; canal; cases; century; children; church; classes; country; course; court; day; days; dutch; dutchman; education; english; fact; family; form; french; general; good; government; hague; hand; holland; home; house; illustration; influence; kermis; law; liberal; life; living; man; members; men; military; money; national; netherlands; new; nicholas; number; party; people; place; population; power; present; public; queen; roman; room; round; rule; schools; service; social; society; state; system; time; town; university; van; village; war; way; women; work; years; young
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